![]() The move was formalized July 21, but the business, through its receiver, has continued to use her name, likeness and memorabilia, it states.Īlthough one of the restaurants has since closed, Knight says that the two that remain open are not up to par and she wants to limit the damage to her name and reputation. 13, 2017: A worker tells the AJC the restaurant is now called The World Famous Chicken & Waffles, but no signage or branding has visibly changed. Knight had considered ending the agreement that let Hankerson use her name as early as 2009 for “what she perceived as mismanagement of the Restaurants,” but only decided to move forward this year, according to the complaint, which was filed Friday. The remaining locations, including the popular downtown Atlanta storefront, are operating under receivership. One of the restaurant’s three locations closed its doors permanently earlier this month. Restaurant leadership cut corners that led to bad health inspection scores and service. After a heated legal dispute, legendary soul singer Gladys Knight’s name is no longer connected to the last of her three namesake restaurants, Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffles. About a year after the owner of Gladys Knight's Chicken & Waffles was arrested on felony theft charges, the downtown Atlanta restaurant sits boarded up, with trash in its doorway. Employees went unpaid and said they worked under unhealthy conditions. Witnesses told investigators that the money was being used for sex parties and marijuana, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found. Knight, an Atlanta native, is not suspected of wrongdoing. ![]() Knight’s son Shanga Hankerson was arrested in June after a Georgia Department of Revenue investigation found that he pocketed taxes that the restaurant collected from customers, according to his arrest warrant. ATLANTA (AP) The son of R&B legend Gladys Knight has been sentenced to serve two years in prison for failing to withhold payroll taxes for the restaurants that bore his mother’s name. “The Restaurants are in freefall and their decline necessarily has the collateral effect of damaging Knight’s Intellectual Property and Knight’s reputation,” the suit states. Listen and subscribe to the AJCs growing list of podcasts. The suit, filed recently in Atlanta federal court, also asks that Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles stop using the Empress of Soul’s recipes and memorabilia. Atlanta and Georgia podcasts including AJC Politically Georgia, Hawks Report, Southern Fried Soccer and true crime (AJC Breakdown). ![]() ![]() Soul music legend Gladys Knight is asking a judge to remove her name and likeness from her son’s troubled chicken and waffle restaurants, saying their flagging fortunes are hurting her reputation. ![]()
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